A Swarm Cycle Story
Set in the Swarm universe. Every military organization has some sort of black market. Good and services that can't be found any other way, as well as people willing to furnish. The rarer the item, the stranger the procurement. A courier pilot is in the perfect position to provide. And enjoy!
A former soldier turned bounty hunter heads to a colony world considered grey. He has a list of fugitives to catch but ends up with two girls along the way.
with a knuckle to the forehead to CMSIX, I give you a story of a man rescued by aliens from a collapsed building, rebuilt and left with little more than his skin on a primitive planet to live or die. He has a haversack and that's all.
A hiker stumbles onto a heavy iron door set into the side of a river cut. After figuring out how to open it he is tested, then enlightened with a technology predating the Egyptian Pharos. From there it gets strange.
Emil Scaggs is a big game hunter and world-famous guide. At the moment, he is between jobs, but he gets an offer that he can't refuse. An Alien offers him the opportunity to hunt big game on other planets for a TV production company. This is the story of some of his hunts and the problems he has with alien creatures, any of which are quite capable of killing him. He proves so valuable that he becomes an executive with the Alien's company and branches out into other types of shows. 10 chapters.
Barrett Kendrick Thompson was the son of William Jr. and Meredith Thompson. William and Meredith were from wealthy families and lived off their trust funds. Madeline Thompson was the family matriarch with three children: Benjamin, Melanie, and her youngest, William Jr., named after her late husband, William. Benjamin and Melanie's children were all girls, and Madeline pressured Junior to have a child. She wanted a grandson and hoped Junior and Meredith could produce one.